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s v 1 this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of publie utihtieÃŸ Chicago examiner tuesday vol xv no 304 a m Chicago december 11 1917 tuesday u s patent office prtpfi two cif.tsttk in Chicago elsewhere registered jtxvxvjj-j iii yji-l^y xk3 axd aubuhbs i'hitee cents allies in jerusalem today wilson ready to take roads president to give his r.r plan in congress special message expected wednesday outlining govern ment control scheme carri ers last ditch offer falls flat 1 1 tashington dec 10 â€” the i va railroads to-day submitted j ' ' to the president thalcplan , for continued operation under pri vate control the plan does not meet with his approval and he is preparing a spe cial message to congress on the railroad situation to he delivered probably wednesday it is clearly understood the president accepts the alternatives presented by the in terstate commerce commission in its special report to congress as the railroads have failed to offer fe convincing plan of efficient oper ation under private control the al ternative is government control and operation thought first step to u s ownership the president therefore is ex pected to tell congress in his special message that he is preparer to take over and operate the railroads of the country and suggest legislation nec essary to enable him to carry this out government control and operation ps a war measure will lead inevitably to government ownership in tlie opin ion of virtually every official in washington the necessity that forces the hand of the government bt this time will silence all opposi tion government control will have its test and there is no expectation that the railroads once under fed eral rule ever will be allowed to re turn to a private basis congress will be found ready to act tke moment it receives word from the president that he is prepared to meet the emergency road heads fight u s control hard the railroad executives at their meeting in new york sunday took a j last ditch chance to stave off govern ment control and operation they make many recessions from their first proposals professed confidence in their ability to meet extraordinary conditions without government aid and apparently found they were not half so crippled in finances as their agents had represented in their pleas to the interstate commeice commis sion for increases in freight rates chairman fairfax harrison at the british save holy city from damage general allenby's triumph breaks 673 years of contrgl by mo j hammedans campaign hailed 1 as the brightest of the war london dec 10 jerusalem the _ holy city which for g7 jttfll has been in undisputed posse sion of the turks has surrendered i over the city whose history dates back to the egyptian records of 1400 b c to-night flutters the white flag of surrender to-morrow it will be replaced by the union jack the tri-color and the italian emblem for to-morrow general allenby's christian army will enter the city where mohamme dans have held sway since the year bethlehem in christian control next christmas bethlehem the cradle of chris tianity will also be in christian hands by the coming christmas british troops after taking by storm positions which enabled them to surround the holy city forced its surrender andrew bonar law chancellor of the exchequer mad this announcement in the house of commons this afternoon he added that the commanders of \ the french and italian contingents the heads of the french and british political missions and the british governor are on their way to jeru salem to safeguard the holy places the chancellor asserted the british ' could have taken the city earlier but waited in order to prevent damage to sacred places in and about the city jerusalem isolated a surrender forced a9 the chancellor went on to say fl on saturday general allenby stoifl the turkish positions south and fl of jerusalem welch and home cfl ty troops advanced from the direcÃŸ of bethlehem their attack warfl fierce that they were enabled to fl jerusalem on the east and to fl tablish themselves on the jerusalfl jericho road the complete isolation of the â– â– ' m thus begun was completed when i.ofl don infantry and dismounted infan^b try stormed the turks west uncm northwest and by a victorious charge placed themselves astride the jerusa lem-shechem road the surrender followed gen allenby hailed as 20ti century crusader with a swiftness of execution ar a genius of generalship that sir pass all other feats of this whi i many assert allenby the bull as \ the army knows him has completed j his brilliant campaign britain and^b her allies hail him to-night as th twentieth century crusader fl except for two brief intervals je^b rusalem has been in mohammedan hands for more than 1,200 years a through 3,000 years it has been a^fl most continually a bloody battl^b ground it has been more often carfl tured and recaptured destroyed anl rebuilt than any other place on earlhjÃŸ it is believed certain that in their j fl u.s weather forecast Chicago am yicimtv â€” parti cloudy tucndmj and weduewdayj not quite o cold tuesday afternoon moderate westerly winds becoming variable tkmpkrati ue tor twenty-four hours eiidiuk at j a m : highest 11 lowest â€” ','.; mean 4 normal temperature for the day tl deficiency uf temperature since january 1 639 degrees precipitation ffir twenty-four h'nirs ending at v p tn none deficiency since january 1 s.oo relative humidity 7 a m o 2 p in l>0 7 i m 58 barometric pressure reduced tn bca level 7 a m 30.ii8 : 7 p m 30.53 sunrise to-day 7:08 sunset 4 complete coternment report on pace ll u.s plans new home guard of 100,000 men washington dec 10 the war department has com pleted plans for a volunteer force of approximately 100,000 to re place the national guard an out line of the proposition as drafted by brigadier general jesse m carter and approved by secretary of war baker will be made public within a few days and recruiting will be put under way the plans call for recruiting of the force by volunteer methods all physically fit men between eighteen and twenty-one and thirty-one and forty-five will be eligible no man subject to the draft is to be enrolled the force is to be a federal in stitution for duty anywhere within the boundaries of the united states but not outside bandit admits 10,000 holdup stock yards bank looter involves five brains of band be lieved trapped a complete contession who obtained last night in the 10,000 robbery of the stockmen's t"ust & savings bank according to state's attorney hoyne part of the loot was recovered two alleged highwaymen were arrested and four more who fled Chicago fol icwingr the daring robbery last week have been located in other cities their arrests are expected hourly names accomplice patrick donovan 5028 justine street declared edward spike o'donnell â€” also in custody â€” was the brains of the band mr hoyne quotes donovan as follows " spike planned the trick in workmanlike manner i and three others of the gan mr hoyne withheld their names were delegated to do the heavy work that is we were to do the robbing spike and another were to cover us on the getaway well we got the money and w r e met spike and the other at sixty third and halsted streets they had another automobile waiting for us we switched into their machine to throw off the police scent and drove like mad to a deserted farm house far on the south side â€” i don't remember exactly where each get 1,750 there we split up the money each man getting about 1,750 donovan's confession state's at torney hoyne declared was corrobor ated by the fact that he even told where he had secreted his share of the loot nearly 700 was found in his home he told detectives where to look for i,oo*o more o'donnell refused to talk italy plans soldiers free war insurance rome dec 10 â€” a government plan for free soldiers vrar insurance will soon be annourtced in parliament by the premier after the war each italian soldier will receive in addi tion to his pension 200 a year the family of any soldier killed in action will receive 100 bryan in washington for la follette trial washington dec 10 william jennings bryan arrived in washing ton to-night to appear before the committee investigating senator ea follette's st paul speech senator fomerenc chairman of the commit tee on privileges and elections did not know to-night whether mr bryan would appear grant to be abandoned as traning camp by w c i hallowell 86th division to be removed to michigan cantonment alien prison at rockford report captured germans to be brought from france officers believe theater plans are stopped rockford 111 dec 10 leading men of rockford and many camp grant officers are excited to-night by persistent reports the cantonment is to be abandoned as a training sta tion one version says camp grant will be turned into an internment camp for alien enemies army officers are chiefly interested in that rumor known to have been discussed to-day in washington and Chicago it i said troops left here would be transferred to camp custer battle creek mich consolidating the selected men of the two cantonments into one division the combination would leave hundreds of officers of this division without assignments information is asked john h camlin president of the rockford chamber of commerce is said to be in washington seeking confirmation or denial circumstantial evidence considered sufficiently strong to warrant worry by those in terested is offered by these facts and bits of gossip abandonment of plans for a mam moth theater building at camp grant thus supporting the theory prisoners and not soldiers are to be stationed there delay by the war department in fixing a date for the arrival of the next increment of selected men thirty-four per cent of the draft is yet to come the statement by a civilian in close touch with military affairs that the government about febru army will inaugurate a system of filling returning transports with german and austrian prisoners of war a.s<>o troops detained statements by men interested in construction they expect future training camps will be placed in the south and southwest headquarters could offer no light on the truth or falsity of the reports of the contemplated removal general kennon is plunging along according ito his original plans treating his command as a permanent division and with splendid results nagler pleads not guilty to sedition madison wis dec 10 â€” louis p nagler former assistant secretary of state to-day pleaded not guilty to a federal indictment charging him with disloyal utterances he presented his resignation to secretary of state mer lin hull to-day and it was accepted w h comerford succeeds him mccormack to sing for the red cross washington dec 10 â€” john mc cormack has offered to give a series of concerts over the country for the benefit of the red cross continuing his trip until he has earned 100,000 he will pay all his own expenses his first concert will be in washing ton december ix president and mrs wilson will attend von bernstorff s son weds american girl new york dec 10 â€” mrs mar guerite vivian burton ttiomason an american girl twice divorced was married in berlin last saturday to count christian gunther von bern storff son of the former teutonic ambassador to the united states drive in italy costs aurtria huge losses best of dual monarchy's forces sacrificed to conquer italy but big drive fails enemy's armies cut off from supplies snows add to diffi culties carl at war front washington dec 10 the latest austro-german effort to break through the italian front has com pletely failed rome announces in of ficial dispatches reaching here to day the failure the rome war office asserts was due to the staggering losses inflicted on the teutons by the italian and allied armies hundreds of thousands of the central powers best troops have been secrificed in fruitless attacks italy declares the statement follows the fierce fighting of the last few days has subsided into a period of comparative calm the superhuman resistance of the italian soldiers prevented the austro-germans from attaining the strategical advantages of their of fensive although they succeeded in obtaining gains of purely tactical character no attacks in three days failure of enemy attacks is in dicated by the inactivity^hn the en tire front for the last three days the invaders have desisted from attacking positions in the direction of the brenta canal because of complete exhaustion of their forces this result is much more important because of the german system of employing troop masses and of re peating the effort with increased violence to reach the goal also in mountain warfare a.vic tory will not produce the desired effect unless exploited immediately with unrelenting action hundreds of thousands lost general conrad has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his best soldiers in successive assaults preceded by unprecedented artil lery preparation the austro-ger man position to-day is in fact more unfavorable to them than at beginning of the offensive because of difficulties they now face in re victualing their troops it now is necessary to transport water to their positions the usual heavy snowfalls of this season will aggravate their hardships and threaten their lines of communication teuton failure complete it may be stated therefore that the central powers have failed to lead their armies into italy's plains where they expected to find com fortable shelter during the winter such failure is due to the stag gering losses our soldiers inflicted upon the invaders emperor carl at front zurich dec 10 emperor carl of austria has gone to the italian front according to a dispatch from vienna to-day 1 a year u s job for multimillionaire salt lake city dec 10 d c jackling multi-millionaire president of the utah copper company lias ac cepted a job at a salary of 1 a year to work for the government it s said he will direct the manufacture of trinitotulol wilson walks to join super war council washington dec 10 when the new super war council convened in the secretary of war's office late to-day president wilson walked to the war building from the white house and joined in the deliberations captain armed onlywithclub saves brigade dritish headquarters in " france dec 10 â€” a staff cap tain at cambrai has been men tioned in the orders of the day for his heroic conduct in saving a whole brigade if not a divi sion singte-handed and armed only with a club he attacked and killed or dispersed a group of ger mans holding an ammunition dump near marcoing he then collected a small force and pushed on to lerues vertes where in a desperate hand-to-hand fight he cleared the place of germans armed with two revolvers he shot eight german machine gunners and held the position until relief arrived Chicago faces lightless night violations of present restrictions impel u.s to bar all but street lamps once a week Chicago is threatened with a night of darkness each week â– * because electric sign owners have refused or neglected to comply with orders specifying hours in which their signs may remain lighted fuel administrator garfield is expected to issue an order in washington within a few days establishing one light less night a week for every city in the country â€” rules are broken under present regulations theater signs are to be lighted from 7:30 o'clock until thirty minutes after the performance begins stores restaurants etc remaining open may keep signs advertising their locations lighted until 11 o'clock and specified hours are fixed f#r all other signs ' ' these regulations have been widely broken all over the country and the fuel administration has decided to adopt the more drastic measure only street lights when the order is issued hotel restaurant store billboard advertis ing and all other signs will be out for the entire night only the necessary street lamps will be lighted and Chicago will ex perience a night of darkness almost as great as if an aeroplane raid was expected kaiser's abdication is urged by junker geneva dec 10 â€” kaiser wilhelm is asked to abdicate by albrecht von graefe goldebee an influential mem vf r of the reichstag in an article said to have appeared in the deutsche zeitung the official pan-german organ prussian militarism according to world belief is synonymous with tlie hohenzollc-rns he says 10,000,000 rockefeller fund for war relief new york dec 10 the war re lief budget of the rockefeller foun dation contemplates expenditures in 1918 of 5,050,000 with a possible in crease of 5,000,000 to come from the principal the expenditures were au thorized by the trustees to-day in the budget is an allowance of 424,000 for the tuberculosis commission in france wilson's cousin joins u s aviation corps denver colo dec 10 â€” charles b welles second cousin of president wilson is on his way to austin tex to-day to enter the aviation corps welles was formerly employed by the burlington railroad in Chicago japanese troops enter russia tokio soldiers sent to patrol vladivostok roumania and germany sign 30-day armis tice china guards harbin london dec 10 the strong hand of japan's military power appeared on tfiv lttfssi&n hori zon to-day both tokio and petrograd^the latter officially â€” announce japanese troops have entered vladivostok to afford protection from disturbances it is the mikado's first military move since november 7 1914 when kiao chau was captured armed intervention menaces bolsheviki whether this armed intervention constitutes a threat to the bolshe viki as the first in a military cam paign to swing russia back into line as an active belligerent against the teutons is for the moment a puzzle japan has refused thus far to recog nize the bolseviki jjfadivostok has declared its independence from rus sia as has the nearby province of amur â– chinese troops patrolling harbin the russian asiatic port is the terminus of one of the branches of the trans-siberian railway it lies 4,200 miles almost due east of petro grad the branch line meets the main trans-siberian railroad at harbin in manchuria there a strong body of chinese troops is patrolling the streets harbin is wavering between adherence to the bolsheviki and a declaration of independence the dis tance from vladisvostok to harbin in a direct line is 320 miles strong bolsheviki forces are ap proaching harbin a clash there with the chinese or in the near future a clash with the japanese between har bin and vladivostok is regarded as possible rebels move to starve bolsheviki siberia is the food store of kussia generals kaledin korniloff and du toff heading large cossack armies are moving to bottle up food resources to starve the bolsheviki into submis sion dutoff has seized the greater part of the province of orenburg a rich stock raising and mineral producing area and is trying to capture the town of tscheliahinsk near the point where the trans-siberian railroad crosses the ural mountains thus with japanese troops at one end of the line traversing siberia and the cossacks at the other end where the road enters siberia ob servers here are asking the ques tion will japan make common cause with the cossacks , siberia to-day announced it would forbid the passage of food or supplies to western russia because such stores would be likely to fall into german hands sign thirty-day truce berlin dec 10 â€” an armistice with the roumanian and russian ar Chicago priest carries cross into jerusalem a Chicago man a priest â€” walked with the british army into jerusalem carrying high the c*oss the symbol of christianity the man was father william raphael ludford order of st benedict and chief chaplain of the british army around jerusa lem he was born in Chicago educated in st mary's academy and spent last summer here with his parents mr and mrs william ludford 23 bellvue place by a coincidence the same order of st benedict to which he belongs launched a holy war against mohammedans and prus sians in 1254 almost 700 years ago austro troops to west front count czernin's announcement of aid for germans indicates big new offensive london dec 10 â€” preparatory it is believed to a huge offensive in the west the germans during the last rwenty-four hours engaged in violent artillery bombardments the cannonading was particularly intense in the verdun sector in alsace and in flanders from the cambrai front there was no important news to-day austrian troons are to be sent to reinforce the germans on the west ern . front count czernin austrian foreign minister announced to-day according to an amsterdam dispatch the german press is jubilant at the news a renewal of the gigantic battles on the western and italian fronts during the present week was predict ed to-day by military experts they believe a joint offensive will be launched by the germans in france and italy french military critics have no fear of the threatened big attack now accepted as a foregone conclusion the french press demands that a su preme inter-allied generalissimo is needed germany is reported to be massing every available reserve on tho west ern front for a great blow most of the members of the german general staff have gathered at western head quarters u s liner mundale reported sinking baltimore dec 10 â€” captain ingalls of the american tanker can field arriving to-day reported that while thirty-tailes southeast of cape hatteras last saturday he received a wireless via beaumont n c ap pealing for aid for the munson liner mundale which was said to be in a sinking condition fifty miles from the caie-s the canfield immediately went in search of the liner but failed to find trace of her hughes again finds white house barred hughes again finds white house barred washington dec 10 charles e hughes suffered a recurrence of an old complaint for a few minutes to-day he could not get into the white house the policeman on the gate insisted on telephoning for in structions but the president's late opponent got a warm welcome when he finally got in he came he said to assure the president he was with him heart and aoul in th prosecution of the war continued on 6th page 3d column continued on 4th page 4th coiumn ' * jli look for a flat o > v t the right way and you will "< ' ' find the right flat at the right l price turn to the flats to rent columns in the want ad section of the examiner and i i select the apartment where you l_j < i may spend a hapdv comfortable i < winter '! l ' ji ft final ii edition |

s v 1 this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of publie utihtieÃŸ Chicago examiner tuesday vol xv no 304 a m Chicago december 11 1917 tuesday u s patent office prtpfi two cif.tsttk in Chicago elsewhere registered jtxvxvjj-j iii yji-l^y xk3 axd aubuhbs i'hitee cents allies in jerusalem today wilson ready to take roads president to give his r.r plan in congress special message expected wednesday outlining govern ment control scheme carri ers last ditch offer falls flat 1 1 tashington dec 10 â€” the i va railroads to-day submitted j ' ' to the president thalcplan , for continued operation under pri vate control the plan does not meet with his approval and he is preparing a spe cial message to congress on the railroad situation to he delivered probably wednesday it is clearly understood the president accepts the alternatives presented by the in terstate commerce commission in its special report to congress as the railroads have failed to offer fe convincing plan of efficient oper ation under private control the al ternative is government control and operation thought first step to u s ownership the president therefore is ex pected to tell congress in his special message that he is preparer to take over and operate the railroads of the country and suggest legislation nec essary to enable him to carry this out government control and operation ps a war measure will lead inevitably to government ownership in tlie opin ion of virtually every official in washington the necessity that forces the hand of the government bt this time will silence all opposi tion government control will have its test and there is no expectation that the railroads once under fed eral rule ever will be allowed to re turn to a private basis congress will be found ready to act tke moment it receives word from the president that he is prepared to meet the emergency road heads fight u s control hard the railroad executives at their meeting in new york sunday took a j last ditch chance to stave off govern ment control and operation they make many recessions from their first proposals professed confidence in their ability to meet extraordinary conditions without government aid and apparently found they were not half so crippled in finances as their agents had represented in their pleas to the interstate commeice commis sion for increases in freight rates chairman fairfax harrison at the british save holy city from damage general allenby's triumph breaks 673 years of contrgl by mo j hammedans campaign hailed 1 as the brightest of the war london dec 10 jerusalem the _ holy city which for g7 jttfll has been in undisputed posse sion of the turks has surrendered i over the city whose history dates back to the egyptian records of 1400 b c to-night flutters the white flag of surrender to-morrow it will be replaced by the union jack the tri-color and the italian emblem for to-morrow general allenby's christian army will enter the city where mohamme dans have held sway since the year bethlehem in christian control next christmas bethlehem the cradle of chris tianity will also be in christian hands by the coming christmas british troops after taking by storm positions which enabled them to surround the holy city forced its surrender andrew bonar law chancellor of the exchequer mad this announcement in the house of commons this afternoon he added that the commanders of \ the french and italian contingents the heads of the french and british political missions and the british governor are on their way to jeru salem to safeguard the holy places the chancellor asserted the british ' could have taken the city earlier but waited in order to prevent damage to sacred places in and about the city jerusalem isolated a surrender forced a9 the chancellor went on to say fl on saturday general allenby stoifl the turkish positions south and fl of jerusalem welch and home cfl ty troops advanced from the direcÃŸ of bethlehem their attack warfl fierce that they were enabled to fl jerusalem on the east and to fl tablish themselves on the jerusalfl jericho road the complete isolation of the â– â– ' m thus begun was completed when i.ofl don infantry and dismounted infan^b try stormed the turks west uncm northwest and by a victorious charge placed themselves astride the jerusa lem-shechem road the surrender followed gen allenby hailed as 20ti century crusader with a swiftness of execution ar a genius of generalship that sir pass all other feats of this whi i many assert allenby the bull as \ the army knows him has completed j his brilliant campaign britain and^b her allies hail him to-night as th twentieth century crusader fl except for two brief intervals je^b rusalem has been in mohammedan hands for more than 1,200 years a through 3,000 years it has been a^fl most continually a bloody battl^b ground it has been more often carfl tured and recaptured destroyed anl rebuilt than any other place on earlhjÃŸ it is believed certain that in their j fl u.s weather forecast Chicago am yicimtv â€” parti cloudy tucndmj and weduewdayj not quite o cold tuesday afternoon moderate westerly winds becoming variable tkmpkrati ue tor twenty-four hours eiidiuk at j a m : highest 11 lowest â€” ','.; mean 4 normal temperature for the day tl deficiency uf temperature since january 1 639 degrees precipitation ffir twenty-four h'nirs ending at v p tn none deficiency since january 1 s.oo relative humidity 7 a m o 2 p in l>0 7 i m 58 barometric pressure reduced tn bca level 7 a m 30.ii8 : 7 p m 30.53 sunrise to-day 7:08 sunset 4 complete coternment report on pace ll u.s plans new home guard of 100,000 men washington dec 10 the war department has com pleted plans for a volunteer force of approximately 100,000 to re place the national guard an out line of the proposition as drafted by brigadier general jesse m carter and approved by secretary of war baker will be made public within a few days and recruiting will be put under way the plans call for recruiting of the force by volunteer methods all physically fit men between eighteen and twenty-one and thirty-one and forty-five will be eligible no man subject to the draft is to be enrolled the force is to be a federal in stitution for duty anywhere within the boundaries of the united states but not outside bandit admits 10,000 holdup stock yards bank looter involves five brains of band be lieved trapped a complete contession who obtained last night in the 10,000 robbery of the stockmen's t"ust & savings bank according to state's attorney hoyne part of the loot was recovered two alleged highwaymen were arrested and four more who fled Chicago fol icwingr the daring robbery last week have been located in other cities their arrests are expected hourly names accomplice patrick donovan 5028 justine street declared edward spike o'donnell â€” also in custody â€” was the brains of the band mr hoyne quotes donovan as follows " spike planned the trick in workmanlike manner i and three others of the gan mr hoyne withheld their names were delegated to do the heavy work that is we were to do the robbing spike and another were to cover us on the getaway well we got the money and w r e met spike and the other at sixty third and halsted streets they had another automobile waiting for us we switched into their machine to throw off the police scent and drove like mad to a deserted farm house far on the south side â€” i don't remember exactly where each get 1,750 there we split up the money each man getting about 1,750 donovan's confession state's at torney hoyne declared was corrobor ated by the fact that he even told where he had secreted his share of the loot nearly 700 was found in his home he told detectives where to look for i,oo*o more o'donnell refused to talk italy plans soldiers free war insurance rome dec 10 â€” a government plan for free soldiers vrar insurance will soon be annourtced in parliament by the premier after the war each italian soldier will receive in addi tion to his pension 200 a year the family of any soldier killed in action will receive 100 bryan in washington for la follette trial washington dec 10 william jennings bryan arrived in washing ton to-night to appear before the committee investigating senator ea follette's st paul speech senator fomerenc chairman of the commit tee on privileges and elections did not know to-night whether mr bryan would appear grant to be abandoned as traning camp by w c i hallowell 86th division to be removed to michigan cantonment alien prison at rockford report captured germans to be brought from france officers believe theater plans are stopped rockford 111 dec 10 leading men of rockford and many camp grant officers are excited to-night by persistent reports the cantonment is to be abandoned as a training sta tion one version says camp grant will be turned into an internment camp for alien enemies army officers are chiefly interested in that rumor known to have been discussed to-day in washington and Chicago it i said troops left here would be transferred to camp custer battle creek mich consolidating the selected men of the two cantonments into one division the combination would leave hundreds of officers of this division without assignments information is asked john h camlin president of the rockford chamber of commerce is said to be in washington seeking confirmation or denial circumstantial evidence considered sufficiently strong to warrant worry by those in terested is offered by these facts and bits of gossip abandonment of plans for a mam moth theater building at camp grant thus supporting the theory prisoners and not soldiers are to be stationed there delay by the war department in fixing a date for the arrival of the next increment of selected men thirty-four per cent of the draft is yet to come the statement by a civilian in close touch with military affairs that the government about febru army will inaugurate a system of filling returning transports with german and austrian prisoners of war a.s<>o troops detained statements by men interested in construction they expect future training camps will be placed in the south and southwest headquarters could offer no light on the truth or falsity of the reports of the contemplated removal general kennon is plunging along according ito his original plans treating his command as a permanent division and with splendid results nagler pleads not guilty to sedition madison wis dec 10 â€” louis p nagler former assistant secretary of state to-day pleaded not guilty to a federal indictment charging him with disloyal utterances he presented his resignation to secretary of state mer lin hull to-day and it was accepted w h comerford succeeds him mccormack to sing for the red cross washington dec 10 â€” john mc cormack has offered to give a series of concerts over the country for the benefit of the red cross continuing his trip until he has earned 100,000 he will pay all his own expenses his first concert will be in washing ton december ix president and mrs wilson will attend von bernstorff s son weds american girl new york dec 10 â€” mrs mar guerite vivian burton ttiomason an american girl twice divorced was married in berlin last saturday to count christian gunther von bern storff son of the former teutonic ambassador to the united states drive in italy costs aurtria huge losses best of dual monarchy's forces sacrificed to conquer italy but big drive fails enemy's armies cut off from supplies snows add to diffi culties carl at war front washington dec 10 the latest austro-german effort to break through the italian front has com pletely failed rome announces in of ficial dispatches reaching here to day the failure the rome war office asserts was due to the staggering losses inflicted on the teutons by the italian and allied armies hundreds of thousands of the central powers best troops have been secrificed in fruitless attacks italy declares the statement follows the fierce fighting of the last few days has subsided into a period of comparative calm the superhuman resistance of the italian soldiers prevented the austro-germans from attaining the strategical advantages of their of fensive although they succeeded in obtaining gains of purely tactical character no attacks in three days failure of enemy attacks is in dicated by the inactivity^hn the en tire front for the last three days the invaders have desisted from attacking positions in the direction of the brenta canal because of complete exhaustion of their forces this result is much more important because of the german system of employing troop masses and of re peating the effort with increased violence to reach the goal also in mountain warfare a.vic tory will not produce the desired effect unless exploited immediately with unrelenting action hundreds of thousands lost general conrad has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his best soldiers in successive assaults preceded by unprecedented artil lery preparation the austro-ger man position to-day is in fact more unfavorable to them than at beginning of the offensive because of difficulties they now face in re victualing their troops it now is necessary to transport water to their positions the usual heavy snowfalls of this season will aggravate their hardships and threaten their lines of communication teuton failure complete it may be stated therefore that the central powers have failed to lead their armies into italy's plains where they expected to find com fortable shelter during the winter such failure is due to the stag gering losses our soldiers inflicted upon the invaders emperor carl at front zurich dec 10 emperor carl of austria has gone to the italian front according to a dispatch from vienna to-day 1 a year u s job for multimillionaire salt lake city dec 10 d c jackling multi-millionaire president of the utah copper company lias ac cepted a job at a salary of 1 a year to work for the government it s said he will direct the manufacture of trinitotulol wilson walks to join super war council washington dec 10 when the new super war council convened in the secretary of war's office late to-day president wilson walked to the war building from the white house and joined in the deliberations captain armed onlywithclub saves brigade dritish headquarters in " france dec 10 â€” a staff cap tain at cambrai has been men tioned in the orders of the day for his heroic conduct in saving a whole brigade if not a divi sion singte-handed and armed only with a club he attacked and killed or dispersed a group of ger mans holding an ammunition dump near marcoing he then collected a small force and pushed on to lerues vertes where in a desperate hand-to-hand fight he cleared the place of germans armed with two revolvers he shot eight german machine gunners and held the position until relief arrived Chicago faces lightless night violations of present restrictions impel u.s to bar all but street lamps once a week Chicago is threatened with a night of darkness each week â– * because electric sign owners have refused or neglected to comply with orders specifying hours in which their signs may remain lighted fuel administrator garfield is expected to issue an order in washington within a few days establishing one light less night a week for every city in the country â€” rules are broken under present regulations theater signs are to be lighted from 7:30 o'clock until thirty minutes after the performance begins stores restaurants etc remaining open may keep signs advertising their locations lighted until 11 o'clock and specified hours are fixed f#r all other signs ' ' these regulations have been widely broken all over the country and the fuel administration has decided to adopt the more drastic measure only street lights when the order is issued hotel restaurant store billboard advertis ing and all other signs will be out for the entire night only the necessary street lamps will be lighted and Chicago will ex perience a night of darkness almost as great as if an aeroplane raid was expected kaiser's abdication is urged by junker geneva dec 10 â€” kaiser wilhelm is asked to abdicate by albrecht von graefe goldebee an influential mem vf r of the reichstag in an article said to have appeared in the deutsche zeitung the official pan-german organ prussian militarism according to world belief is synonymous with tlie hohenzollc-rns he says 10,000,000 rockefeller fund for war relief new york dec 10 the war re lief budget of the rockefeller foun dation contemplates expenditures in 1918 of 5,050,000 with a possible in crease of 5,000,000 to come from the principal the expenditures were au thorized by the trustees to-day in the budget is an allowance of 424,000 for the tuberculosis commission in france wilson's cousin joins u s aviation corps denver colo dec 10 â€” charles b welles second cousin of president wilson is on his way to austin tex to-day to enter the aviation corps welles was formerly employed by the burlington railroad in Chicago japanese troops enter russia tokio soldiers sent to patrol vladivostok roumania and germany sign 30-day armis tice china guards harbin london dec 10 the strong hand of japan's military power appeared on tfiv lttfssi&n hori zon to-day both tokio and petrograd^the latter officially â€” announce japanese troops have entered vladivostok to afford protection from disturbances it is the mikado's first military move since november 7 1914 when kiao chau was captured armed intervention menaces bolsheviki whether this armed intervention constitutes a threat to the bolshe viki as the first in a military cam paign to swing russia back into line as an active belligerent against the teutons is for the moment a puzzle japan has refused thus far to recog nize the bolseviki jjfadivostok has declared its independence from rus sia as has the nearby province of amur â– chinese troops patrolling harbin the russian asiatic port is the terminus of one of the branches of the trans-siberian railway it lies 4,200 miles almost due east of petro grad the branch line meets the main trans-siberian railroad at harbin in manchuria there a strong body of chinese troops is patrolling the streets harbin is wavering between adherence to the bolsheviki and a declaration of independence the dis tance from vladisvostok to harbin in a direct line is 320 miles strong bolsheviki forces are ap proaching harbin a clash there with the chinese or in the near future a clash with the japanese between har bin and vladivostok is regarded as possible rebels move to starve bolsheviki siberia is the food store of kussia generals kaledin korniloff and du toff heading large cossack armies are moving to bottle up food resources to starve the bolsheviki into submis sion dutoff has seized the greater part of the province of orenburg a rich stock raising and mineral producing area and is trying to capture the town of tscheliahinsk near the point where the trans-siberian railroad crosses the ural mountains thus with japanese troops at one end of the line traversing siberia and the cossacks at the other end where the road enters siberia ob servers here are asking the ques tion will japan make common cause with the cossacks , siberia to-day announced it would forbid the passage of food or supplies to western russia because such stores would be likely to fall into german hands sign thirty-day truce berlin dec 10 â€” an armistice with the roumanian and russian ar Chicago priest carries cross into jerusalem a Chicago man a priest â€” walked with the british army into jerusalem carrying high the c*oss the symbol of christianity the man was father william raphael ludford order of st benedict and chief chaplain of the british army around jerusa lem he was born in Chicago educated in st mary's academy and spent last summer here with his parents mr and mrs william ludford 23 bellvue place by a coincidence the same order of st benedict to which he belongs launched a holy war against mohammedans and prus sians in 1254 almost 700 years ago austro troops to west front count czernin's announcement of aid for germans indicates big new offensive london dec 10 â€” preparatory it is believed to a huge offensive in the west the germans during the last rwenty-four hours engaged in violent artillery bombardments the cannonading was particularly intense in the verdun sector in alsace and in flanders from the cambrai front there was no important news to-day austrian troons are to be sent to reinforce the germans on the west ern . front count czernin austrian foreign minister announced to-day according to an amsterdam dispatch the german press is jubilant at the news a renewal of the gigantic battles on the western and italian fronts during the present week was predict ed to-day by military experts they believe a joint offensive will be launched by the germans in france and italy french military critics have no fear of the threatened big attack now accepted as a foregone conclusion the french press demands that a su preme inter-allied generalissimo is needed germany is reported to be massing every available reserve on tho west ern front for a great blow most of the members of the german general staff have gathered at western head quarters u s liner mundale reported sinking baltimore dec 10 â€” captain ingalls of the american tanker can field arriving to-day reported that while thirty-tailes southeast of cape hatteras last saturday he received a wireless via beaumont n c ap pealing for aid for the munson liner mundale which was said to be in a sinking condition fifty miles from the caie-s the canfield immediately went in search of the liner but failed to find trace of her hughes again finds white house barred hughes again finds white house barred washington dec 10 charles e hughes suffered a recurrence of an old complaint for a few minutes to-day he could not get into the white house the policeman on the gate insisted on telephoning for in structions but the president's late opponent got a warm welcome when he finally got in he came he said to assure the president he was with him heart and aoul in th prosecution of the war continued on 6th page 3d column continued on 4th page 4th coiumn ' * jli look for a flat o > v t the right way and you will "< ' ' find the right flat at the right l price turn to the flats to rent columns in the want ad section of the examiner and i i select the apartment where you l_j < i may spend a hapdv comfortable i < winter '! l ' ji ft final ii edition |